crumhorn

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Krum(m)horn (literally “bent horn”).

Noun

crumhorn (plural crumhorns)

1. (music) Any of several related simple woodwind instruments having a bent horn
   • 2026 January 3, Melissa Heikkilä, “Lunch with the FT: Yann LeCun”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     [Yann] LeCun grew up constructing model aeroplanes and playing woodwind instruments such as the recorder and the crumhorn, a “weird Renaissance instrument”, which he played in a Renaissance dance music band.

Related terms

• cromorne

Translations

woodwind instrument

• Catalan: cromorn (ca) m
• Dutch: kromhoorn (nl) m
• French: tournebout (fr) m
• German: Krummhorn (de) n
• Hungarian: görbekürt
• Italian: cromorno (it) m